HTML Designer

The HTML Designer provides editors and tools that make it possible for you to create and modify HTML documents. There are three editing views:

• Design view   Use this view to edit HTML pages graphically, insert and resize elements from the Toolbox, position and align them, and see the results instantly.

• Source view   Use this view to edit HTML directly, insert attributes and properties from pop-up statement completion lists, and validate your markup.

• Split view   Use this view to see and edit a document in both Design view and Source view. By default, the two windows are arranged horizontally, but you can change this behavior by selecting Split views vertically in the General, HTML Designer, Options Dialog Box.

In This Section

• Design View
  Provides a graphic environment for creating and editing HTML documents.

• Positioning Elements in Design View
  Describes how elements are positions on a Web page.

• Hyperlink Dialog Box
  Enables you to specify the link type and target location for a hyperlink jump to be encoded around the string or image selected in your document.

• Table, Insert Table Dialog Box
  Enables you to insert a table and select various options for its size and appearance.

• Name and Password Required Dialog Box
  Prompts you to enter the ID and password of a user who has FrontPage Administrator permission, when required.

• Regular Expression Editor
  Enables you to edit the ValidationExpression property of the RegularExpressionValidator control.

• Select Property Pages Dialog Box
  Enables you to specify the properties and options for a select element in an HTML document.

• CSS, HTML Designer, Options Dialog Box
  Enables you to change default settings for the CSS editor.

• CSS Styling, HTML Designer, Options Dialog Box
  Enables you to change default settings for how CSS styling is applied in Design view.

• Ruler and Grid, HTML Designer, Options Dialog Box
  Enables you to change default settings for the HTML designer that affect the appearance of the ruler, grid, and snapping-grid features in Design view.

• View, HTML Designer, Options Dialog Box
  Enables you to change default display settings in the HTML designer that affect the appearance of the user interface (UI) for a page in Design view.

Related Sections

• Web Forms Designer
  Enables you to add controls to a form, arrange them, and write code for their events.

• Toolbox, HTML Tab
  Provides components that are useful on Web pages and Web forms.

• Select Project Item Dialog Box
  Enables you to choose a page, component, graphic, or other file in your Web site.

See Also

Walkthrough: Basic HTML Editing in Visual Studio for Web Forms Pages
Walkthrough: Advanced HTML Editing in Visual Studio for Web Forms Pages